Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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